Cleanup Guide template: UX/UI Accessibility #16 about guides HOT 17 OPEN

Guide: UX/UI Accessibility #16

Overview

We need to create a guide for UX/UI Accessibility so that designers at Hack for LA can ensure their projects follow accessibility standards.

Action Items

• Research existing information about UX/UI Accessibility in relevant resources and articles including WCAG
  • Once done, remove the "Guide: Research" label and add the "Guide: Gather Examples" label
• Gather examples of how other projects follow accessibility guidelines in their Githubs wiki/Readme (if any examples exist), adding each example as a link in the resources section below
• Reach out to the UI/UX lead to find out if they did any Accessibility work that is not documented on the readme/wiki
  • Once done, remove the "Guide: Gather Examples" label and add the "Guide: Draft Guide" label
• Create a draft guide, either in markdown format in this issue or a google doc in the [ux/ui google drive]
  • Once done, remove the "Guide: Draft Guide" label and add the "Guide: Review Guide" label
• Review the guide with UX/UI community of practice
  • Once done, remove the "Guide: Review Guide" label and add the "Guide: Leadership Review" label
• Present to the Hack for LA leadership team for sign off
  • Once approved, remove the "Guide: Leadership Review" label and add the "Guide: Place Guide" label

Resources

WCAG

Update issue #15 with the name of item you are working on

The Guide in the first comment of this issue is a starting point for instructions but will need to be customized and added to based on what projects actually use. Please do not delete the current draft, but rather copy and start a new draft.

Link to Issue #16

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Train of Communication So Far

Hana and Danielle said;

"There are accessibility guidelines in the Design Systems guide, but it would be good to have a dedicated accessibility guide with even more details. Whoever is working on this guide can reference the accessibility section of our guide. Ciara Salmon is our dedicated Accessibility advisor, and is already attached to this Issue. Please discuss with her."

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Sent this to author hackforla/UI-UX#16 (comment)

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author has not responded

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author responded and I replied hackforla/UI-UX#16 (comment)

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She has responded, I made some formatting changes to lower the font size and asked her to continue that. hackforla/UI-UX#16 (comment)

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She responded and we have written back hackforla/UI-UX#16 (comment)

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Bonnie talked to Hana and found out some context behind what KiKi (aka SalmonCiara) was concerned about. Bonnie provided more context to Kiki and she is going to do more work. Her work will inform the templates and how to write a guide guide because it involves font size changes.

Check again in 7 days 9/29 hackforla/UI-UX#16 (comment)

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Bonnie posted a message for another question for the guide

Wait until 2021-10-08 and then ask for update again from Ciara. Will talk to Hana about it today

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She responded, will check back on 2021-10-08

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no response, give her another week. 2021-10-13

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Next step is mine. KiKi needs a new developer who cares about accessibility to work with. Also have Adam Abundas reach out to her after they sort out hackforla.org changes. https://github.com/hackforla/website/projects/7#card-70908491

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Adam and and the website team have not made any progress on the changes. Check in again with them next week. 2021-10-25

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Rabia from the Internship team found the following resources. Just mentioning them here in case they are useful.
Digital Accessibility Foundations Free Online Course
W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative
Article on Accessibility of Remote Meetings
Article on Figma plugin for accessibility

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Rabia from the Internship team found the following resources. Just mentioning them here in case they are useful. Digital Accessibility Foundations Free Online Course W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative Article on Accessibility of Remote Meetings Article on Figma plugin for accessibility

Credit for the FigJam resource goes to Priyanka from the Internship team :)

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need to determine if word choices such as click or choose are innately ableist.

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This issue requires someone to check on the issues related. Possibly move the guide to another status, etc. Basically needs a through review.

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